I love to use Tulips for spring decor! Fresh tulips are wonderful, but I love to have artificial ones on hand. When decorating the mantel, or to keep on a table, it’s nice not to have to change them every few days or have an empty vase. The store selection has been slim the last couple of years, and well, they just aren’t very pretty. So I decided to order some so I could share my findings with you. I am also sharing how to style artificial tulips found on Amazon.
I searched artificial tulips on Amazon, and wow! There were a lot of choices. I couldn’t decide on just one, so I ordered several kinds of tulips and then planned to keep the ones I liked the best. I ordered a couple that were influencer recommended and some that just looked pretty. So I styled them up and will share the pros and cons of the artificial tulips from Amazon with you!
How To Choose The Most Realistic Faux Tulips
This was my basic guideline for choosing the artificial tulips.
1. Choose “Real Touch” or molded plastic flowers
Flowers made from Polyurethane (PU) poured into a mold have a soft touch and realistic details. These are called “Real Touch” flowers. When searching for the flowers the descriptions would say plastic or latex, but farther done in the details, it stated PU.
My favorite tulips were made from PVC.
2. Choose thick, wired stems. Real stems are thicker, and wire allows the flower to bend over and look more natural.
3. Select natural colors. Make sure the artificial colors match mother nature’s colors.
4. Choose single stems.
The Tulip Unboxing
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I ordered all pink tulips, because pink, and because me. However, most of them come in a lot of other colors. I know white is very popular for more neutral decor.
Opening the boxes there was one clear winner for most realistic looking. I actually thought I might have ordered real tulips by mistake! I was excited to see if they still looked the most realistic after styling. Other than that, they all looked pretty similar.
A Closer Look at the Tulips and My Favorites
My original plan for this post was to list my favorites in order 1-5, however I couldn’t really narrow it down this way. I really liked 4 out of 5 of the tulips I ordered. There were good things about all of them, and my decision on which to keep was based more on function and price than which I liked the best.
Which Artificial Tulips Look the Most Realistic?
No question, these were hands down the most realistic looking artificial tulips. Here is the link for the realistic tulips. They restock fairly quickly, so check back if they are out.
The leaves were large and realistic, they were heavy, and there was a variety of bud shapes and colors. There is a green bud that hasn’t opened, a pink bud almost open, and then a variety of head sizes.
The stems were easy to bend and shape. To make them look even more realistic, I curved a few of the heads, so they look like they are falling over. I do wish that the leaves were wired, that would make them perfect.
These were my favorite.
How to Make A Faux Tulip Planter
The next tulips I styled were also very pretty and second most realistic. Here is the link for the bendable leaves tulips. I decided to make them look like they were planted in an urn.
This was really quick and easy to put together.
Just place a couple of floral foam blocks in the bottom of the urn.
Bend a couple of the tulips and add those in first.
Continue filling in with the rest of the tulips, keeping them mostly straight, or just slightly curved.
Finally, cover the foam with moss.
These tulips had wired leaves, so they are perfect for displaying this way. The stems were easy to bend as well, and the color was very pretty.
The Final Three
How fun is this? Can’t I just keep them all?
The tulips in the middle and on the right are so similar, that either would be a good choice. I didn’t style the middle ones separately, so here is the link for the darker pink tulips.
If you want a big bunch of tulips to plop in a pitcher, vase, or whatever, these are perfect. I did rule out the ones on the far left. I don’t think they are as pretty as the other two, and you get half the amount of tulips for about the same price.
Aren’t these beautiful? I love them in an ironstone pitcher, stems curved slightly, and a bow tied to the handle. Here is the link for these light pink tulips.
They look perfect with my kitchen shelves all refreshed for Spring!
Let’s talk price. Is it true you get what you pay for?
I would say “Yes, you do get what you pay for”, at least 2 out of 3 times here. The realistic tulips and the tulips with the bendable leaves cost more per stem than the vase fillers.
Are they worth the extra cost?
Yes to the realistic tulips and maybe on the bendable leaves. I don’t think the actual tulips were that much prettier than the vase fillers, so it would depend on how you used them.
All the bunches were similar in price, but the number of stems varied. This made the 30 pack vase fillers the best value.
Which Tulips Did I Keep?
I was only going to allow myself to keep two.
I chose the tulips that were the most realistic
and the light pink vase fillers.
Ok, I am keeping the ones in the urn ,too. The more I look at them, I think I need them. I also think this was a bad idea to order all these HaHa!
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Thanks for stopping by,
Janet